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| System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance (medium.com) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2015 | 287 points by 0x10c0fe11ce | typography & art | original thread | | ||
| 2 users recommended this thread. What they said: |
| et-al Nov 3, 2016 | on: Web fonts, boy, I don't know | context |
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divbzero Oct 9, 2020 | on: Last Resort Font | context
Reminds me if this fun post [1] [2] from a few years back. |
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I was just going to say that Medium post about the system fonts was a great read and deserves a thread of its own, but it looks there there was one a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10437485
> Would love an attribute on script and link tags that could be conditional based on connection speeds.
Takes me back to the days when you would choose between an HTML version of a site, or a heavy Flash version. :)